How many of us had thought about Cyprus until this week? How many of us were aware that Cyprus had become a global tax haven with a obese banking sector about 8 times the size of its tiny GDP? (Banking sector in Europe is 3 times Europe’s GDP & US banking sector is 1 times…
This week the European Crisis reemerged. The European Union acted with utterly inconceivable stupidity in confiscating a portion of monies of depositors in Cyprus banks. Reportedly this was a German decision that was imposed on Cyprus in a do it or go bankrupt fashion demonstrating that the European Union is becoming a German-led autocracy rather…
Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting videoclips with our comments. This is an article that expresses our personal opinions about comments made on Television and in Print. It is NOT intended to provide any investment advice of any type whatsoever. No one should base any investing decisions or conclusions…
Last week, we wrote a detailed article about UPenn’s cancellation of the invitation to Honorable Narendra Modi, Chief Minister of the State of Gujarat and one of the leading political figures in India. That article titled Columbia & Lee Bollinger vs. UPenn & Amy Gutmann – The Modi Saga described our opinions about the decisions…
Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting videoclips with our comments. This is an article that expresses our personal opinions about comments made on Television and in Print. It is NOT intended to provide any investment advice of any type whatsoever. No one should base any investing decisions or conclusions…
Rarely does an American University become the topic of vehement debate on India’s raucous television networks. That dubious distinction was earned by the University of Pennsylvania (“UPenn”) and its business school Wharton. Wharton runs an annual India Forum that until this year was very well respected and attended. The Forum had extended an invitation to…
Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting videoclips with our comments. This is an article that expresses our personal opinions about comments made on Television and in Print. It is NOT intended to provide any investment advice of any type whatsoever. No one should base any investing decisions or conclusions…
Below are articles published on Macro Viewpoints this week: India’s Best Restaurants – Our Choices vs. S. Pellegrino’s & Margherita Stancati’s >>>> Anne Applebaum, Tom Friedman et al on India – Blinders, Myopia or Closed Feedback Loop? >>>> Interesting Videoclips of the Week (February 25 – March 1, 2013) >>>>
Cinema Rasik, our nom de plume, points to our real passion as well as our angle for viewing global situations. We love a wide variety of films, Hollywood classics, great westerns and of course the full range of Bollywood films. We don’t do films. We taste films made by others for us. After all, we…
We like reading Tom Friedman’s articles about India. We may have been critical of him, more critical than perhaps any one else has been. But we like him. His flattery of India pleases us, his rationale strokes our collective ego. He always seem enthralled with what learns in India. His expressions are reminiscent of the…